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3.1 ISAAC AND ISHMAEL  Description  |  Credits  |  Episode Page

• FBI
• National Crime Information Center
• Presidential Classroom
• Secret Service
• Joe Pepitone
• Wile E. Coyote
• SAT
• Army
• Navy
• Marine Corps
• National Guard
• Irving Berlin
• Giants Stadium
• Cowboys
• Old Executive Office Building
• LaGuardia
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Yankees
• Knicks
• Red Sox
• Lakers
• Laker Girls
• The Palm
• "When you think Taliban, think Nazis..."
• Etymology of Assassin
• Treasury
• IRA
• Basque
• Red Brigades
• Gandhi
• Boston Tea Party
• Declaration of Independence
• State Department
• Pentagon
• CIA
• Khrushchev
• Cuban Missile Crisis
• Benjamin Franklin
• The Blacklist
• Mecca
• Vatican
• John Wayne
• For What It's Worth by Buffalo Springfield - lyrics

3.2 MANCHESTER (Part 1)  Description  |  Credits  |  Episode Page

• Special Prosecutor
• Air Force One
• Mifepristone - RU-486
• FDA
• M&Ms
• Andy Williams
• Pease Air Force Base
• Cabinet Affairs
• American Embassy in Haiti
• USS Enterprise
• Oprah Winfrey
• Justice Department
• Jack Daniel's
• Rock the Boat by The Hues Corporation - song lyrics
• John Goffe's Mill
• French and Indian War
• Pentagon
• Instead by Abandon Jalopy - song lyrics
• Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, the Judiciary - House - Senate
• Guantanamo Bay
• Canadian Prime Minister
• Evolution Revolution Love by Tricky - song lyrics
• Attorney General
• NFL
• Up With People
• Coast Guard
• Abenaki

3.3 MANCHESTER (Part 2)  Description  |  Credits  |  Episode Page

• Dr. Kevorkian
• Multiple Sclerosis
• Mifepristone - RU-486
• FDA
• Health and Human Services
• Air Force One
• Hague
• Strategic Petroleum Reserve
• Manifest Destiny
• State Department
• French Government
• Sears Tower
• Stratocaster
• Prime Minister of Israel
• Hay-Adams
• Columbia Gem of the Ocean by David T. Shaw - song lyrics
• "sitting shivah"
• Rotarian
• Starbucks
• "New Hampshire live free or cheap" - Live free or die. - State Motto
• Grand Marshal of the Rose Bowl Parade
• "I never drank the Kool-Aid" - reference
• Boston Globe
• Churchill and FDR

3.4 WAYS AND MEANS  Description  |  Credits  |  Episode Page

• US District Court
• The Wall Street Journal
• Executive Privilege
• Attorney Client Privilege
• Spousal Privilege
• Doctor Patient Privilege
• Special Prosecutor
• Attorney General
• Multiple Sclerosis
• FedEx
• Yellowstone Park
• Resource Benefit Zone
• Department of the Interior
• Governor of Wyoming
• Estate Tax
• Giselle
• The House of Representatives
• Pacers vs Cleveland Cavaliers
• Community Empowerment Board
• Secret Service
• House Ways and Means
• Article 1 Section 7 of the Constitution
• Presidential Veto
• OEOB
• Secretary of the Interior
• Secretaries of State, Defense, Treasury and Education
• Political Economy from Oxford
• University of Chicago Law School
• Editor of "Yale Law Review"
• National Fire Plan
• Lexis-Nexis
• Congressional Black Caucus
• Fortune 500
• Choate, Brown and Harvard
• Robin Hood
• House Government Reform and Oversight
• State of the Union
• Governors of Idaho, Montana and Utah
• Speaker of the House
• Secretary of Agriculture
• US Forest Service
• [House] Judiciary
• [House] Majority Leader

3.5 ON THE DAY BEFORE  Description  |  Credits  |  Episode Page

• Clerk of the House
• Presidential Veto
• Executive Clerk
• Tony Bennett
• Dr. Kary B. Mullis
• Georgia Tech
• UC Berkeley
• Cheese Gnocchi
• chévre and brioche
• Article 1 Section 7 of the Constitution
• East Room
• Speaker of the House
• President of the Senate
• Easter Egg Hunt
• Periodic Table of Elments
• National
• Delta, United and American
• EPA
• Tom Jones
• State
• Travel Warnings
• Embassy Regional Security Officer
• FBI
• Israeli Prime Minister
• "Indianapolis|Post-Dispatch"
• Tennessee Valley Authority
• Grazing fees
• CNN
• AP
• 1974 Privacy Act
• Agency
• Arafat
• U.N. Secretary General
• General Accounting Office
• House Rules
• Heisman Trophy
• New York Marathon
• "Walk softly and carry a big stick" - Theodore Roosevelt
• Production Flexibility Contracts
• Agricultural Export Subsidies
• FDA
• Bill Russell
• Red Auerbach
• NGO
• Governor of Indiana
• Astro Turf
• Labor Secretary
• Oliver Wendell Holmes
• DNC
• Ways and Means
• Government [Reform and] Oversight
• The House of Representatives
• Yom Kippur
• Erev Yom Kippur

3.6 WAR CRIMES  Description  |  Credits  |  Episode Page

• San Francisco Chronicle
• Abilene Regional Medical Center
• Oakland Raiders over Dallas
• Tennessee over Detroit
• New Orleans over Atlanta
• Ephesians 5:21
• Volare
• Saint Paul
• Larry King
• Sinatra
• "You make me egg foo young ..." - You Make Me Feel So Young - song lyrics
• War Crimes Tribunal
• House Government Reform and Oversight
• OEOB
• State Department
• Federal Reserve
• Indianapolis
• Kansas City over Arizona
• Notre Dame
• NRA
• National Conference of State Legislatures
• Convention Center in San Antonio
• Aviation Prince
• National Security Council
• United Nations
• Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal
• Armed Services Committee - House - Senate
• Foreign Relations - House - Senate
• Chicago over Cincinnati
• 18 U.S.C. 1001 - Lying to Congress
• 18 U.S.C. 1505 - Obstruction of Proceedings before Depatments, Agencies and Committees
• 2 U.S.C. 192 - Contempt of Congress
• The Mint
• Treasury
• Compostion of the Penny
• New York Times - FREE REGISTRATION REQUIRED
• Green Bay
• Rambo
• Multiple Sclerosis
• Speaker of the House
• Lincoln
• NATO
• Tokyo War Crimes Trial
• The Cold War from CNN
• German Rocket Scientists
• Operation Rolling Thunder
• 335th Tactical Fighter Wing
• Second Amendment

3.7 GONE QUIET  Description  |  Credits  |  Episode Page

• Pacific Fleet
• USS Portland
• NAS North Island
• Marine One
• Dikembe Mutombo
• I'm Too Sexy by Right Said Fred - song lyrics
• State Department
• Truman
• Constitution
• National Park Service
• National Endowment of the Arts
• Le Monde
• National Parks
• Starbucks
• Appropriations - House - Senate
• House Government Reform and Oversight
• Medical Practices of 3 States - New Hampshire - Missouri - Arizona
• AMA Code of Ethics 
• America's Cup
• FEC
• Assistant Secretary of State
• National Security Council
• "... violated international law ..."
• USS Pueblo
• "I was there" - Hal Holbrook starred in Pueblo a TV movie
• Schweppes Bitter Lemon
• Order of Succession
• Park Police CURRENTLY NOT AVAILABLE
• Wheatena
• Budweiser Clydesdales
• Picasso and Monet
• US Supreme Court
• Buckley vs. Valeo from LEGAL INFORMATION INSTITUTE
• USS Glomar and Project Jennifer
• USS Gudgeon in 1957
• " ...the Oklahoma, the Hornet the Lexington ..."
• USS Wasp
• UN
• "16 countries were involved in that police action ..." - Korean War
• Germany, 1937, Degenerate Art
• Pericles
• Phidias (or Pheidias)
• Lorenzo de Medici
• Leonardo da Vinci
• Elizabeth
• Shakespeare
• Practitioners Database
• Leave it to Beaver
• USS Gurke
• the Saint Paul
• the Irwin (DD 794)
• the Manchester

3.8 THE INDIANS IN THE LOBBY  Description  |  Credits  |  Episode Page

• Camp David
• Bess Truman
• wheat-gluten import quota
• "We pardoned the turkey"
• Governors of Washington, Idaho, North Dakota, Montana and Alaska
• the Times - FREE REGISTRATION REQUIRED
• Reuters
• CNN
• Miami Herald
• Washington Post
• Interpol
• Governor of Georgia
• Justice
• OMB
• Calcuating poverty level
• SAT
• Treaty of 1856 CURRENTLY NOT AVAILABLE
• University of Michigan
• Stockbridge-Munsee
• Dawes Act
• Henry Dawes
• Studebaker Wagons
• "... a swallow to Capistrano ..."
• State Department
• Fed Ex
• Mussolini
• YMCA
• "Butterball Hotline"
• Molly Orshansky
• Social Security
• The Cold War from CNN
• [Italian] Foreign Minister
• Eurailpass
• Italian Embassy
• Indian Reorganization Act CURRENTLY NOT AVAILABLE
• CFR 151
• Department of the Interior
• Canadian Thanksgiving
• The Little Red Lighthouse and the Great Grey Bridge (ISBN#: 0152470409)
• George Washington Bridge
• Italian Ambassor [to the United States]
• Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs CURRENTLY NOT AVAILABLE
• Deputy of Acquistion and Property Management CURRENTLY NOT AVAILABLE
• Deputy of Tribal Services CURRENTLY NOT AVAILABLE
• Salmonella and Campylobacter jejuni
• USDA
• Bishop of Rome is the Pope
• "... US Airways out of Hartsfield going to DFW"
• Michigan Wolverine - nickname of the University of Michigan
• P.T. Barnum
• George Washington
• Park Police CURRENTLY NOT AVAILABLE

3.9 THE WOMEN OF QUMAR  Description  |  Credits  |  Episode Page

• Rocky Mountain News
• DOJ|Civil Division
• The Smithsonian
• Pearl Harbor
• DOD
• NOW
• UN
• NVSL in Ames, Iowa
• Central Veterinary Laboratory in Addlestone, United Kingdom
• Mad Cow Disease
• Class one recall
• Weekly Standard
• Pentagon
• CIA
• Dodger Stadium
• Celtics
• The Crusades
• The Fall of the Roman Empire from Theodosius [II] to Justinian [II] ?
• Visigoths
• Clean Water Act of 1972
• University of Maryland
• National Cattlemen's Beef Association
• USDA
• CNN
• Nintendo
• Coke
• Pepsi
• Amerigo Vespucci
• State Department
• Easy-Bake Ovens
• World War II propaganda posters including "The Sowers"
• Washington Times
• "the Post"
• New York Times - FREE REGISTRATION REQUIRED
• Lady Godiva
• Suffrage
• Child Support Enforcement Act
• NEA
• Unfunded Mandates
• Americans with Disabilities Act
• FSIS
• George Perkins Marsh's speech in 1847 not 1845
• Ernst Haeckel
• Rotary Club
• Elk
• Popeye
• OMB
• Franklin Roosevelt
• Medicaid
• Marshall
• Truman
• Tenth Armored Division
• Battle of the Bulge
• Hitler
• European Union
• Doctrine of Sovereign Immunity
• RNC
• Governor of New Hampshire
• MS
• Secretary of Health and Human Services
• The Civil War
• Origin of "red tape"
• Eleanor Roosevelt
• Undersecretary for Global Affairs
• Apartheid
• Labor Secretary

3.10 BARTLET FOR AMERICA  Description  |  Credits  |  Episode Page

• ATF
• Governor of Tennessee
• Tennessee National Gaurd
• Grammy
• Armani
• Multiple Sclerosis
• Statehouse in Concord
• Thomas Hilton
• Office of Travel and Tourism in New Hampshire
• Governor of New Hampshire
• Marriott in Concord
• House
• Senate
• FBI
• Eisenhower in 57
• Kennedy in 61 [Freedom Rides]
• Edith Galt Wilson
• Woodard Wilson
• Article 2 Section 1 Clause 6 of the U.S. Constitution
• 25th Amendment
• Mural Room
• FBI Director
• Civil Rights Act
• Johnny Walker Blue
• RNC
• Mensa
• the Speaker
• House Government Reform and Oversight

3.11 H.CON - 172  Description  |  Credits  |  Episode Page

• Rayburn House Office Building
• Capitol Police
• Censure - Alternatives to Impeachment
• Speaker of the House
• The House of Representatives
• White House Photographer
• State of the Union
• Medicare
• Head Start
• 1709 map of Holy land
• OMB
• Treasury
• Teacher of the Year
• President of Ecuador
• Jed Bartlet's favorite movie - The Lion in Winter
• Ritz-Carlton
• George Washington
• Georgetown Law Library
• Deep Throat-ing
• How to Choose the Sex of Your Baby by Dr. Landrum B. Shettles
• The Nutcracker
• Marines
• Nijinsky
• " ... watching Leno"
• Pentagon
• "You're going to war over a piece of paper" - World War 1
• Andrew Jackson
• " ... over the Bank of the U.S."
• Censure of Andrew Jackson - 1834 - 1837
• "Boy, boy, crazy boy," - Cool from West Side Story - song lyrics
• "the Post and the Times" - FREE REGISTRATION REQUIRED
• Harvard
• AMA
• MS

3.12 100,000 AIRPLANES Description  |  Credits  |  Episode Page

• Nielsen's
• Vanity Fair
• Speaker of the House
• Majority Leader
• The Cold War from CNN
• Jack Daniel's
• State of the Union
• Henry Kissinger
• Bill Gates
• Jesse Jackson
• Mr. Rogers
• Censure - Alternatives to Impeachment
• The Civil War
• "rebuked a sitting president" see II. The Historical Uses of Censure B. Congressional Censure of Presidents
• Absolut Cosmopolitans
• DPC
• Wilson's [Grill]
• The Surrey With The Fringe On Top from Oklahoma - song lyrics
• "An employee may not use contract airline/rail passenger service provided under ... General Services Adminstration ... - basis of making goverment forms easier to understand
• Gettysburg Address
• Ten Commandments
• FDA
• Sphingosine kinase
• Mahatma Ghandi
• NOW
• EMILY's List
• "we will land a man on the moon ... - John F. Kennedy
• MS
• NIH
• Samuel Broder, former director of the National Cancer Institute
• HHS
• Mural Room
• Sloan-Kettering
• Dana-Farber
• The Cleveland Clinic
• UCLA
• Society of Clinical Oncology
• OMB
• CNN
• USA Today
• Tommy Hilfiger
• Roosevelt
• May 16, 1940 - Franklin Roosevelt ordered 50,000 airplanes, preparing for World War 2
• Tranquility Base

3.13 THE TWO BARTLETS  Description  |  Credits  |  Episode Page

• The Supreme Court
• Safe Haven laws
• Hamlet
• Ophelia
• State of the Union
• the Stones at Wembley Stadium
• Honky Tonk Woman by the Rolling Stones - song lyrics
• Vieques
• Eastern Iowa Airport
• Freedom to Farm Act
• Four-H
• butter cow and butter Elvis - article
• butter Last Supper
• James and Peter
• Marcel Duchamp
• Dadaism
• University of Iowa
• Affirmative Action
• cloture motion - can be offered to end a debate after a certain amount of time
• Coast Guard
• Obi-Wan
• GI Bill
• William Henry Harrison
• History of Puerto Rico
• PTA
• U.S. House of Representatives
• Epcot
• UB40
• Non-Point Source Pollution
• U.S. Bullion Depository at Fort Knox, Kentucky
• Treasury Department
• Roosevelt and Truman
• "Papoose Lake Spacecraft taken from Roswell to Groom Lake in 1947 a little piece of land called Area 51 ... "
• Dungeons and Dragons
• Secretary of the Air Force
• ... "did an exhaustive search for records ..."
• Navy
• Dr. Jekyll and Uncle Fluffy
• "Quando dio vuole castigarci ci manda quello che desideriamo." -
  "When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers."
• OJ verdict
• Washington
• Air Force One
• Red, Red Wine by UB40 - song lyrics
• Samoan Fog Cutter or a Navy Grog
• Bacardi 451
• "My family signed the Declaration of Independence" - Bartlet - Dr. Josiah Bartlett
• Nobel Laureate [in Economics]

3.14 NIGHT FIVE  Description  |  Credits  |  Episode Page

• Old Executive Office Building
• Resolute Desk
• H.M.S. Resolute
• Rutherford Hayes
• Queen Victoria
• James Hoban
• pay receipts to slave owners including James Hoban
• Buchanan was visited by Edward, Prince of Wales
• "... British torched the place"
• Dolley Madison
• Multiple Sclerosis
• UN
• State Department
• Senate Foreign Relations
• Embassy in Kinshasa
• Travel Advisory for the Congo
• The Federalist Society
• Restructuring of UN Dues Scale and Peacekeeping assements
• House International Relations Committee
• Abbott, Costello
• Secretary of State
• Sugar subsidies
• International Herald-Tribune
• U.S. Constitution
• State of the Union
• Arthur Miller
• Death of a Saleman
• Girl Scouts
• NSC and NSA
• Mussolini
• Col-Tan
• London School of Economics
• Ivy League
• Lincoln
• Civil War

3.15 HARTSFIELD'S LANDING  Description  |  Credits  |  Episode Page

• Chess invented in India around 600 A.D.
• History of Chess
• Joint Chiefs
• Prime Minister of India
• 7th Fleet CURRENTLY NOT AVAILABLE
• Hartsfield's Landing - Dixville Notch
• Ching Chuang Kang [Air Base]
• the Nimitz
• the Independence
• the Carl Vinson
• Xinhua
• "79 Act" - Taiwan Relations Act
• William Howard Taft
• Seventh Inning Stretch
• Take Me Out to the Ballgame by Jack Norworth and Albert von Tilzer
• "Shine on Harvest Moon" - lyrics by Jack Norworth but music not by Albert von Tilzer
• Retail Politics - addressing individual concerns
• State of the Union
• Tansen
• Mogul Court of Emperor Akbar
• Grandmaster
• Fibonacci Chess opening
• Stock Exchange of India
• "Import-Export Bank" - Export-Import Bank
• Free elections in Taiwan in 1991
• Chinese Ambassador [to the United States]
• Shanghai Communiqué
• Sigmund
• Lord Mountbatten
• Jawaharial Nehru
• Evans Gambit
• Giuoco Piano opening
• Charlemagne
• Krazy Glue
• Fed Chair
• Princeton
• Dickens
• Censure - Alternatives to Impeachment
• King Gustaf
• Nobel Prize in Economics
• Marion the Librarian from The Music Man
• Eisenhower
• Quemoy and Matsu
• Mao

3.16 DEAD IRISH WRITERS  Description  |  Credits  |  Episode Page

• Social Darwinism
• Libertarianism
• Mardi Gras
• Lent
• "body organ that produces hydrochloric acid" - stomach not the pancreas
• Lenox china
• 97 Willamette Valley Pinot Noir
• 94 Hogue Cellars Zinfandel
• Gatsby
• Her Royal Majesty
• New Hampshire Medical Board
• Manchester Union Leader
• Secret Service
• Superconducting Supercollider - Congress spent 2 billion
• Amtrak
• Crossfire
• Department of Treasury
• Sinn Féin
• IRA
• England's Ambassador to the United States
• Danny Boy - song lyrics
• Lagavulin
• Anonymous Hold
• U.S. Senate
• INS
• Toasting
• The Stuarts
• in 1643 members of the Middle Temple toasted Princess Elizabeth by pledging to die in her service
• Governor of New Hampshire
• Fruit Loops
• Senate Appropriations
• Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma
• General Assembly of the United Nations
• Arafat
• Kipling
• James Joyce
• Eugene O'Neill
• "There is no present or furture only the past happening over and over again -- now" from A Moon for the Misbegotten
• King Baudouin of Belgium
• Betaseron
• Canadian National Anthem
• Censure - Alternatives to Impeachment
• U.S. Presidents with Irish heritage:
  • Andrew Jackson
  • James Polk
  • James Buchanan
  • Ulysses S. Grant
  • William McKinley
  • Woodrow Wilson
  • John F. Kennedy
  • Richard Nixon
  • Ronald Reagan
  • Bill Clinton
• Yankee Doodle by George M. Cohan - song lyrics
• FDR
• Campobello
• Churchill
• History of X-ray
• History Penicilllin
• electron was discovered in 1897
• Haydn and Mozart
• the House
• Sloan-Kettering

3.17 THE U.S. POET LAUREATE  Description  |  Credits  |  Episode Page

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